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IMS Technical Workgroups Are Leading the EdTech Sector Forward in Achieving Plug and Play Innovation

	Technical Work	Technical Focus
	Accessibility	Accessibility, inclusive design, and personalization of online learning resources to meet the needs of all users/learners
	App Sharing & Integration Protocol	Peer-to-peer educational app sharing catalogs and storefronts
	App Vetting and Privacy	Vetting educational applications, to ensure that a minimum standard of privacy and security is met, provides assurance that the information gathered by these educational applications is being used responsibly.
	Caliper Analytics	Consistently capturing and presenting measures of learning activity and defining a common language for labeling learning data, with a standard way of measuring learning activities and effectiveness enabling designers and providers of curriculum to measure, compare and improve quality
	Common Cartridge	Organization, publishing, distribution, delivery, and search of a wide variety of collections of digital learning content, applications used as the basis for or in support of online learning of any type.
	Competencies & Academic Standards Exchange	Exchange and management of information about learning standards and/or competencies in a consistent and referenceable way including machine-readable statements of what the learner will know and be able to do, explanations of relationships between standard sets and/or among individual standards or courses where applicable, and guides listing specific criteria for grading or scoring academic papers, projects, or tests.
	Comprehensive Learner Record	A comprehensive digital learner record that supports competency-based education, co-curricular and extra-curricular skills and achievements, employer-based learning, and other learning experiences in a verifiable, portable, and interoperable format.
	Digital Badges	Capturing learner achievements that are verifiable, portable, and interoperable through Open Badges and in the future, learning pathways and Blockchain extensions.
	EPUB for Education	Establishing a globally interoperable, accessible, open ecosystem for e-Textbooks and other Digital Learning Materials via EPUB3, Educational Sector Standards and the Open Web Platform
	Igniting Digital Assessment Innovation	Exchange of item, test and results data between authoring tools, item banks, test construction tools, learning systems and assessment delivery systems, including accessible assessments.
	Learning Tools Interoperability	Integrating rich learning applications (often remotely hosted and provided through third-party services) with platforms like learning management systems, portals, learning object repositories, or other educational environments.
	Learning Tools Interoperability Resource Search	Searching digital repositories for a set of resources using various attributes of resources and returning full metadata about the resources to the learning tool
	OneRoster/Learning Information Services/Edu-API	Exchange and synchronization of roster information and grades which focuses on people, memberships, courses and outcomes.
	OpenVideo	Creation of video capture metadata to enable information from any video to be shared and searched
	Privacy and Security	Development of a Privacy Service which will carry privacy preferences across systems and tools

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Together We Get Farther Faster!

IMS Global is a non-profit member collaborative inventing the future of educational and learning technology. IMS enables a plug & play architecture and ecosystem that provides a foundation on which innovative products are rapidly deployed and work together. IMS suppliers are the market leaders in innovation. IMS institutions are getting to the future of digital learning faster. IMS certification is a bond of trust and commitment to creating innovative products that work together for the benefit of instructors, students and institutions.

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